The Amateur

2025 · 123 min · dir. James Hawes

The Amateur is a 2025 American action thriller film directed by James Hawes and written by Ken Nolan and Gary Spinelli. It is based on the 1981 novel by Robert Littell, which was previously adapted into a 1981 Canadian film. It stars Rami Malek, Rachel Brosnahan, Caitríona Balfe, Michael Stuhlbarg, Holt McCallany, Julianne Nicholson, and Laurence Fishburne. In the film, when a CIA cryptographer's wife is killed in a terrorist attack, he blackmails the agency into training him so he can personally seek revenge. Synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.